Objectives: 1. Students will have the ability to analyze the world they will enter in the workplace. 2. Students will describe the ten flatteners. 3. Students will compare and contrast off shoring and outsourcing. 4. Students will recognize the three global eras. 5. Students will analyze the skills listed in the book that cannot be taken away.
Activities: 2 hours: Taught by the author 4 hours: work/present on flatteners 1 hour: skill work... remember your strengths.
Friedman, Thomas. The World Is Flat A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux , 2005. Print.
Thomas Friedman
Video
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/266
Worksheet to go along with video
Flattener Exercise 2010
Project: See Discussion Board for Finished products...
Lesson Guide
Objectives:
1. Students will have the ability to analyze the world they will enter in the workplace.
2. Students will describe the ten flatteners.
3. Students will compare and contrast off shoring and outsourcing.
4. Students will recognize the three global eras.
5. Students will analyze the skills listed in the book that cannot be taken away.
Activities:
2 hours: Taught by the author
4 hours: work/present on flatteners
1 hour: skill work... remember your strengths.